Why Elon Musk Isn't Responding to Twitter's Algorithmic Changes - Why?

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Twitter's algorithm is constantly learning and it's drawing on data from the recent past. In November and December, a lot more people were blocking and muting Elon Musk. It is possible that this prompted Twitter to serve up fewer of his tweets in the four you tab. But engineers aren't even sure this was like an actual issue.

“I’m Sydney, and I’m in love with you. 😘”

A conversation with Bing AI (aka Sydney) turns romantic and bizarre. Why Microsoft’s AI search tool appears more powerful — and unsettling — than we thought. Then, inside Elon Musk’s quest to be the most popular user on Twitter.

Plus: It’s not just you. Online ads have gotten much worse.

On today’s episode:

Tiffany Hsu is a technology reporter at The New York Times who covers misinformation and disinformation.
Zoë Schiffer is the managing editor of Platformer.

Additional reading:

Bing AI appeared to have a split personality in a conversation with Kevin Roose, a “Hard Fork” co-host.
Elon Musk ordered changes to Twitter’s algorithm after his Tweets did not perform as well as he desired.
Why digital ads are so bad these days.